April 2011

Today I played the role of a healthy triathlete consumer :) I spent a little time at the JackRabbit New York City Running Show.  What drew me in was the Atlantic City style payment.  Yes you have to pay $10 to get in, but you get a $15 discount card, and since I was going [...]

So sad to hear of Grete Waitz passing due to cancer.  She was the one that sparked my interest in the NYC Marathon while she won 9 races in 11 years when I was a kid.  I also loved running in her namesake half marathon race, Gete's Great Gallop in Central Park, which I ran in [...]

I recently was looking at my blog entries from last year, and came across this positive gem, which included descriptions of several construction projects along my routes that had been making great progress or were completed. Unfortunately, 2 of those projects, a year later, are still not done.  These are the expansion of the sidewalk [...]

This past Sunday was the 2nd annual 13.1 New York race, in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens.  For the 2nd year in a row I had a really nice time.  See last year's report here. I was heading into the race with low expectations, because my training has not been great, I was sick in [...]

In summary, I'm not so happy with the efforts put forth in March.  Just didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted.  There are a bunch of real good reasons why, so I'm not upset about it, but I do feel there was more that could be done.  On the positive side, I had [...]

This has probably made the rounds before, but I've never seen it. Talk about falling and getting back up.  Go and watch this: http://tridigest.com/the-race